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Clueless star Alicia Silverstone would love to have another crack at playing Batgirl on the big screen.

The actress portrayed Barbara Gordon’s crime-fighting alter-ego, opposite George Clooney’s Batman, in 1997 flop Batman & Robin - and even she thinks the film could have been much better.

Alicia was just 21 when she was cast as Batgirl by director Joel Schumacher and now, 20 years later, she admits she would be up for taking another swing at the character.

“I feel like I could do a much better Batgirl now than I did then,” the actress tells USA Today. “It would be fun to tackle it again, because I’m older and my acting is better. I know I would bring so much more to it.

“I was just a baby. It was a different thing. But I had fun back then. And I think it would be fun to do it again.”

And she insists she wouldn’t say no to a role in writer/director Joss Whedon’s solo Batgirl film, stating, “I’m open to anything, whatever people bring to me and whatever the best choice is for that time.”

Silverstone is back on the big screen after a run of TV projects as the new mum in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul. The fourth film in the hit book-to-movie series, which hits cinemas in the U.S. on Friday, features an all new cast.

Rachael Harris played mum Susan Heffley in the first three movies and Tom Everett Scott replaces Steve Zahn as Frank Heffley in the new film.